Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:55:36 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org, Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@gmail.com>, ru@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, Marc Ren? Arns <dienst@marcrenearns.de> Subject: Re: make buildkernel fails without complete source tree Message-ID: <45AFC2A8.4010708@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <1169146311.91059.38.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> <20070118095724.GS5594@elvandar.org> <474078f80701180950s5e307d27lf91d2d2f2322737b@mail.gmail.com> <45AFBC10.6030700@freebsd.org> <1169146311.91059.38.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu>
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Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:27 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote:
>>> On 1/18/07, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote:
>>>> This is not true. I downloaded the packages which are being used by sysinstall
>>>> and extracted them. I found the Makefile, it was properly filled with instructions.
>>> It looks to me like src/release/makefile builds the tar file ssys.tar
>>> by just tarring /usr/src/sys and therefore would in fact be missing
>>> /usr/src/Makefile and /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 necessary for "make
>>> buildkernel".
>>>
>>> Taking a look at the tar file:
>>>
>>> cat ssys.a?? > ssys.tar && tar tvf ssys.tar
>>>
>>> I see that only files in /usr/src/sys are included.
>>>
>>> We could add a tar -r -f .. /usr/src/Makefile /usr/src/Makefile.inc1
>>> to release.7 in /usr/src/release/Makefile to automatically add these
>>> two files as a special case to the ssys distribution. CCing re@ for
>>> any comments on that proposal.
>> I vaguely remember this issue coming up before, and that we didn't make
>> any changes to packaging because that in order to use the buildkernel
>> target, one "should" have already done a buildworld, which requires the
>> complete source tree anyway.
>>
>> (Maybe I'm mis-remembering...)
>>
>> Bruce.
>>
>
> I don't recall a discussion about this (it may pre-date my involvement
> in RE) but my understanding was the 'make <anything>' in /usr/src was
> only supported if you load all of the source tree (which is what Bruce
> is saying). Extracting just the sys sources is still useful because you
> can do "manual" (old fashioned, which is why I know about it...) kernel
> builds on the current system:
>
> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> config GENERIC
> cd ../compile/GENERIC
> etc...
>
> But to do anything beyond that you really need the whole src tree.
>
Hmm didn't notice that this was a sys/ only download, thought
it was an entire download. I downloaded the entire src/ stuff
from the ftp servers and with that extracted, i have a nice
Makefile with all the required stuff.
My apologies for the mislead!
--
Kind regards,
Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org
FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org
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